...towards the beginning of the Gilded Age. Although the Gilded Age brought great economic improvement, many suffered. The economic development that this era brought to America was very appealing to immigrants, and America experienced a large influx of European immigrants towards the latter part of the 1800’s. Despite the technological and economic improvements of the Gilded Age, only a small percentage of the population in America reaped the benefits of this. Living and working conditions were abysmal, and tensions rose within the large, yet poverty ridden middle...
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...The Gilded age had began in the late 1800’s, this refers to the corruption and falseness of this era. The Gilded age was a rise in big business, corruption along the government and a lot of violence due to strikes. Many people from the country had began moving to the cities for jobs and money causing the populations to grow quicker. During the Gilded age America had changed politically because the government became weak; Economically, we had bigger and better jobs; and, socially we became more violent as workers fight for rights. America changed politically because the government had became weak. The government had became week when they had started using the spoil system, the spoil system is when they have their friends, supporters or family working government positions due to víctory. The government would only side with the big business and would take their word on anything that they would say. They had also started the laissez-faire and social darwinism. The laissez-faire had happened because they started believing that the government should completely stay away from big business and social darwinism was an idea of “survival of the fittest the ones who were poor were meant to be poor and the ones who were rich were meant to be rich. An example of this would be “The government should not try to help the “unfit” because it would be a waste of...
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...During the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the Industrialization Era took place and changed the way America and Europe produced merchandise forever. America and Europe continually grew more urban and factories transformed the entire way the typical working man spent his work day. The Gilded Age followed the Industrialization Era and represented the large economic growth in America. After the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era occurred. The Progressive Era began in the late 18th century and political reform and social activism became the active goal during this time. During the Progressive Era, environmental protection was needed in order to save the Earth from the rapidly increasing urbanization. It was people like Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford...
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...The term “gilded age” was a term coined by Mark Twain, who wrote jokingly about the problems of an expanding population masked by a thin sheet of gold. The Gilded Age was a time period in American history that spanned from 1871 to 1900. It was a time of growth and change in cities. In a more proper way, or as Mr. Lore says, “The Gilded Age was a time of vast change in America’s cities. Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and immigration transformed cities”. In the classroom, students always learn about what happens everywhere but not in their own individual cities. This essay demonstrates what happened in our hometown city of Philadelphia: the industries, immigration, laws, and movements. The region’s major industries included textiles, locomotive manufacturing, ship building, iron and steel production, and sugar refining. When petroleum was discovered in Western Pennsylvania, Philadelphia became an oil storage and refining center. They played big roles in producing a large sum of money into...
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...The Gilded Age was inspired by the ending of the Reconstruction Period. Mark Twain named this age in one of his books because it meant it brought in wealth and business to powerful white men and left the lower classes in poverty. Though on the surface it seemed like the gilded age would bring in good business and wealth, and it did, behind the wealth was corruption. During 1870 to 1900, big business were controlled by political bosses and they were able to have the economy and political system in the palm of their hand. As a result, they were allowed to regulate labor conditions and influenced the political system, and in return the people of America created labor unions and fought to improve the working conditions of the growing lower class. During the overtake of big businesses in America, the government took a laissez-faire approach and didn’t take action to stop the growing monopolies. It would take a couple years for the government to finally take action with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which would limit the monopolies power. But this proved to have little impact because of its ambiguous writing of the law the Supreme Court was able twist the law as it...
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...The Pullman and Homestead strikes both happened during the Gilded Age. It was a period of rapid industrialization, urbanization and economic changes following the American Civil War (Hamblin, PowerPoint). Both of these strikes represented an unstable period of time in American history. Originally, Mark Twain in 1873 described this period of time as the social reality of economic hardship and political corruption in an age of perceived wealth and excess (Hamblin, PowerPoint). The rich had power. Business owners were so involved that they would try many ways to make their company increase profits, such as reducing wages of all workers. The government acted as an oligarchy. When the factory owners wanted to stop strikes, they would ask the government...
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...The three most important factors in the changing structure of the American city during the Gilded Age were changes in transportation, mass production methods, and urbanization. It simply wasn’t possible for large numbers of people to live in cities before the creation of the railroad, trolley, streetcar, or other method of public transportation. It was not possible to build skyscrapers until late in the 19th century so developers were limited by how high they could build. Most cities could feasibly only be a few miles long as the main method of transportation was walking. People had to be able to walk from their home to their place of within a half hour which restricted city sizes. That changed with the creation of the railroad and subsequently smaller methods of public transportation such as the trolley. People could live further from their place of work and the rush to the suburbs...
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...riGild- to cover boring base metal with a nice precious metal “gilded age” credited to mark twain The great leap forward- the prosperous economic times @ end of gilded age. The great leap forward was mainly concentrated in the north. The main cause of the GLF was the industrialization Throughout the gilded age the north accounted for 80precent of the industrial advancements. Until the 1800’s the only 2 components of the American economy was agriculture and overseas commerce. Then during the war of 1812 that began to change. The north started to do more manufacturing. 3 industries at the core of GLF steel industry railroad industry coal industry steel industry- over 400 steel companies. But only produced 200,000 tons of steel In 1900 – fewer than 80 steel companies But they produce 10million tons of steel Railroad industry – customers of steel coal and timber industry Government realized that railroad was so important So they gave it a lot of land. Coal Industry – Saudi Arabia of coal More here than anyone in the world. The Working People of The Gilded Age. Category A workers – white collar people. Had higher status Doctors Lawyers Ministers Journalists Needed higher education. **category A&B =Middle Class Category B workers – Skilled workers Worked with hands Did not dress nicely to work Got paid very well due to their skills Sometimes more than category A’s Carpenters Plumbers ...
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...The Great Plains— To the Point Geography- West of the MS River *1800 Territory in the plains included North Dakota & South Dakota, Nebraska, and states such as Texas * Great Plains had very hot summers and very cold winters, very rainfall which droughts few sources of water very few trees - conditions not fit for farming *Before the late 1800s U.S. settlers did not settle the plains. Farming The Plains *Farming the plains was difficult * Gov’t encourage settlement by passing the Homestead Act -$160 acres -$10 registration fee - live on farm land for 5 yrs *Houses was made of sod because of lack of trees Farming Technologies - Cast Iron wingmill- allowed them to pump waterfrom wells. - Steel plow- to wooden plow would break in dry hard earth of the plains Cattle Industry Mechanical binder- tied and cut the grains or crops simultaneously - barbed wire- replaced wooden fences Rise of cattle industry -abundance of cattle in Great Plain -herd of cattle numbering about 2,500 were taken on long drive (cattle trails such as the chilsoln trail which was San Antonio, Texas to Abliene, Kansas) to Ship stations in Kansas and Missouri -African American Cowhand- Nat Love Decline Of cattle industry -overgrazing -overproduction costs the product to drop -weather (droughts, blizzards) -barbed wire led to development of cattle ranches ...
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...demonstrated their citizenships by participating in elections, educate themselves and become a teacher or open a school like disabled ex slave Elias did and own lands and work independently on their own, worship in their own churches, 3) Since the beginning of colonization of the first colonies in North America, Native Americans have been subjected to colonial rule and forced from their lands. Towards the end of the nineteenth century Native American tribes began to resist such rule and push back. One example of this is in 1877 when the Nez Percé people fought back against the United States when the government dictated a treaty severely reducing the Nez Percé people forcing them to move onto reservations. These people fled to Canada for safety, and around 800 of the Nez Percé people were slaughtered, leaving than 300...
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...a right time, in right place. This expressed clearly throughout the wars. America somehow used the smart tactics that could help them remain their economic benefits. In World War I, at the beginning, America chose to follow “neutrality policy”, when they have no reason to attend in a battle that was not their. However, there were many reasons that forced US to join into the war that they undesired. In 1915, the Lusitania's sinking with the death of innocent Americans was seen that the main external reason that affected strongly US’s decision to enter the war. Undeniably, the “act of aggression” of Germany, when they tried to ignite the fight between Mexico and America, also consolidated the decision. Moreover, the internal reason, as the safety of the “democratic ideology”, was a substantial factor that made the US change the original political orientation. Generally, no matter what the real reason was, the truth was that America, indeed, achieved a lot of economic benefits not only in wartime but also in postwar. On the other...
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...national production.[endnoteRef:7] [6: Paul B. Beers, Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday, The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1980, p. 16.] [7: Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday, p. 17 ? 18.] This economic phenomenon occurred in a Commonwealth whose population at the commencement of the 20th century was about 6 million persons. Of these, approximately 1 million were immigrants, and 160,000 residents possessed African-American heritage. Philadelphia was the nation?s third largest city, with 1.3 million persons. Greater Pittsburgh was the seventh with a population of almost ? million residents. Employment was at 2.5 million workers.[endnoteRef:8] During this period, known as the Gilded Age, the state also experienced an influx of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe.[endnoteRef:9] [8: The Pennsylvania Manual, Volume 121, Physical and Natural Properties, State Printer, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 2013, p. 1-3.] [9: History of Pennsylvania, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Pennsylvania, accessed September 2016.] These persons lived in a state that stretches 170 miles north to south and 283 miles east to west.[endnoteRef:10] Pennsylvania embodies 46,055 square miles or about 29 million acres. The Commonwealth encompasses 67 counties and almost 2,500 municipal governments, which administer a diverse population through the use of revenue, laws, regulations, and services.[endnoteRef:11] [10: Pennsylvania, https://en...
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...Stephen Mennell HISTORY, NATIONAL CHARACTER AND AMERICAN CIVILISATION America is a land of familiar paradoxes. An agreeable civility habitually prevails in most everyday relations among people in America – yet the United States is factually a socially highly unequal society. In most parts of America, the laws and social customs strongly restrain people from doing harm to themselves and others by smoking – yet the laws and social customs only weakly restrain people from doing harm to themselves and others by the use of guns, and the murder rate is about four times as high per capita as in Western Europe. The usa is the world’s remaining super-power – yet internally the American state is in some ways strikingly weak. The usa has ‘saved the world for democracy’ on more than one occasion – but has itself become an aggressive militaristic society. And there appears to be an increasing divergence between how a large proportion of Americans view themselves and their country and how they are perceived by a large proportion of the 95 per cent of the world’s population who are not Americans. Hunting down myths It has been said that sociologists must be ‘myth-hunters’, tracking down popular beliefs that are ill founded (Elias 1978: 50-70). Whether simply exposing such beliefs to contrary evidence deployed by academics is sufficient to kill off myths and bring them home for mounting on the walls of our university departments is highly debateable. Nevertheless, we have a duty to call...
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...Inside, the inhabitants devote themselves to a life of indulgence while a computer with a vaguely seductive female voice controls the city and produces everything they need to live. They know nothing of the outside world, nor do they have any idea how to operate the machines that serve them. As in many similar works, the characters are portrayed as being much like children, dependent on the central computer to shelter them in their gilded cage. But the characters aren't only separated from the nature outside the city. They are also separated from the natural processes of life. They are incubated in nurseries, rather than being born, and they neither marry nor know their children. It is only natural, in their eyes, for sex to be purely a form of entertainment, unconnected to intimacy or procreation. Nor do they know anything of the natural process of aging. Because space is limited in the city, the computer simply does away with everyone on their 30th birthday. To lead these lambs willingly to their slaughter, it has given them a ritual and a myth: at the age of 30 everyone participates in carousel and has a chance to be "renewed" -- born again. Carousel is the ultimate rite of despair and hope. As the ritual begins, the 30 year-old victims stand in the center of a giant auditorium-in-the-round, wearing white death masks that make this ordered world look like a high-tech version of something out of the dark...
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